We are moving through a period of global economic transition. The new economy will favor complexity over hierarchy, and work with ecosystems and civil society, to achieve a more harmonious relationship between individuals and their environment. There are certain key points that will define this progress and build resiliency and generative capacity into the global economic system:

1. Decentralization of energy supply
2. Decentralization of financial influence
3. Decentralization of national policy-making: Citizen-centered policy process
4. Transition from GDP to more complex array of human development metrics for economic data
5. Greening of energy supply
6. Markets defined by benefits to people, not by wishes of already powerful interests
7. Always-on democratic process: local, national, global
8. Global free media: full-spectrum transparency standard for banks + governments
9. Open technology: crowd-sourcing / prioritization of delivery of new technologies to those who need them
10. Lifelong learning: education as national, global priority, right to access to education is lifelong

These principles provide a baseline for charting and monitoring the rise of the deep green economy: a new economic paradigm in which the avenues of extraction and consolidation are opened up and replaced with a fabric of reciprocal ingenuity and positive feedback. In the deep green economy, the dignity of human beings, their ability to exercise genuine freedom of imagination and personal talent, and the viability of natural support systems, will take precedence over narrow profit interests, and this will open the possibility for gain from virtuous economic activity to an ever-wider complex of interests, communities and people.

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